"Vectis National Party The Vectis National Party was a minor political party operating on the Isle of Wight in the United Kingdom in the early 1970s. Formed in 1967, the party sought Crown dependency status for the Isle of Wight, on a similar model to certain other islands including the Isle of Man. They were motivated by a belief that the sale of the Isle of Wight to the English crown in 1293 was unconstitutional. The party contested the Isle of Wight constituency in the 1970 general election when candidate R. W. J. Cawdell, a councillor for Ryde, polled 1,607"
"Veteris Veteris (commonly spelled ""Vitiris, Vheteris, Huetiris"", and ""Hueteris"") was a Celtic god attested from many inscriptions in Roman Britain. The dedicants were usually private individuals and were exclusively male. During the 3rd Century AD the cult was particularly popular among the ranks of the Roman army. Veteris' name was never linked with that of any of the Classical gods, but he was invoked with another local god, Mogons, at Netherby. Veteris was worshipped in Roman Britain and altar-stones raised to him have been recovered in the United Kingdom, such as those excavated at: Forty altars to this god are"
"Britain where he fought thirty battles, subjugated two warlike tribes, and captured more than twenty towns, besides the entire Isle of Vectis"""". The form ""Vectis"" seems reasonably robust but Rivet and Smith were uncertain of its etymology. A gloss on an 1164 manuscript of Nennius equates Old English ""wiht"" with Latin ""divorcium"", which has encouraged writers to think that the island sits like a lever (Latin ""vectis"") between the two arms of the Solent. The word could be Brittonic, from a Celtic root akin to Irish ""fecht"" ""journey"" and Welsh ""gwaith"" ""work"". A detailed study in 2010 draws attention to"
"Valentia (Roman Britain) Valentia (Latin for ""Land of Valens"") was probably one of the Roman provinces of the Diocese of ""the Britains"" in late Antiquity. Its position, capital, and even existence remain a matter of scholarly debate. It was not mentioned in the Verona List compiled around 312 and so was probably formed out of one or more of the other provinces established during the Diocletian Reforms. Some scholars propose Valentia was a new name for the entire diocese, but the List of Offices names it as a consular-rank province along with Maxima Caesariensis and the other equestrian-ranked provinces. Present"
"centre of the British isles, being located geographically at nearly the same distance from the westernmost shores of Ireland, the easternmost lands of Britannia and the Channel. Regardless of the empire's plans for Deva, Londinium, the province's economic and trading centre, emerged as the capital of Britannia, reflecting a change in imperial policy from expansionism to consolidation. Deva Victrix Deva Victrix, or simply Deva, was a legionary fortress and town in the Roman province of city of Chester. The fortress was built by the Legio II ""Adiutrix"" in the AD 70s as the Roman army advanced north against the Brigantes,"
"Lavatrae Lavatrae , also known as Lavatris, was a Roman fort in the modern-day village of Bowes, County Durham, England. The Romans built a fort with wooden ramparts at Lavatrae in the early AD 70s, after an invasion of the region by Governor Petilius Cerealis. It was intended as a waypoint on the northern leg of the Roman equivalent of Watling Street in the section connecting Luguvalium (Carlisle) to Eboracum (York) and points south. It guarded the eastern entrance to the Stainmore Pass through the Pennines, overlooking the River Greta. The name ""Lavatrae"" meant ""summit"". Stone walls were built around"
"by the future Emperor Vespasian during the invasion of Britain in 43 considering his extensive actions in the South West, during which according to the Roman historian Suetonius: ""He reduced to subjection two powerful nations, more than twenty towns, and the island of Vectis"". No evidence has been found of Roman settlement in the area but Roman finds have been uncovered in nearby Totnes, Newton Abbot and on Berry Head on the opposite side of Torbay existed an Iron Age fort and a cache of Roman coins was discovered in 1730, including among others a coin of the Emperor Claudius"
"east Yorkshire. The Brigantes allied with the Roman Empire during the Roman conquest of Britain: Tacitus records that they handed the resistance leader Caratacus over to the Empire in 51. Power struggles within the Brigantes made the Romans wary, and they were conquered in a war beginning in the 70s under the governorship of Quintus Petillius Cerialis. The Romans created the province of ""Britannia Inferior"" (Lower Britain) in the North, and it was ruled from the city of Eboracum (modern York). Eboracum and Deva Victrix (modern Chester) were the main legionary bases in the region, with other smaller forts including"
"Verica Verica (early 1st century AD) was a British client king of the Roman Empire in the years preceding the Claudian invasion of 43 AD. From his coinage, he appears to have been king of the Atrebates tribe and a son of Commius. He succeeded his elder brother Eppillus as king in about 15 AD, reigning at Calleva Atrebatum, today called Silchester. He was recognised as ""rex"" by Rome and appears to have had friendly trade and diplomatic links with the empire. His territory was pressed from the east by the Catuvellauni, led by Epaticcus, brother of Cunobelinus, who conquered"
"Ammianus, considered it the recaptured northern portion of Maxima Caesariensis, which he placed around Eboracum (York). This was generally accepted after the appearance of Charles Bertram's highly-influential 1740s forgery ""The Description of Britain"", which placed the province between the two walls and even named the area north of the Antonine Wall as a separate province of Vespasiana. His work was, however, debunked over the course of the mid-19th century. Valentia (Roman Britain) Valentia (Latin for ""Land of Valens"") was probably one of the Roman provinces of the Diocese of ""the Britains"" in late Antiquity. Its position, capital, and even existence"
"tile with the initials NV seems to suggest the Numeri Vigilum was present here during the 4th century AD. It was also listed as Praefectus Numeri Vigilum Concangios (The Prefect of the Company of Watchmen from Concangis) under the Duke of the Britains. Concangis Concangis was an auxiliary castra in the Roman province of Lower Britain (""Britannia Inferior""). Its ruins are located in Chester-le-Street, Durham, in England, and are now known as Chester-le-Street Roman Fort. It is situated north of Durham and south of Newcastle upon Tyne. The name ""Concangis"" is Brittonic, but of uncertain meaning; it is possibly derived"
"Velletri Velletri (; , ) is an Italian ""comune"" in the Metropolitan City of Rome, on the Alban Hills, in Lazio, central Italy. Neighbouring communes are Rocca di Papa, Lariano, Cisterna di Latina, Artena, Aprilia, Nemi, Genzano di Roma, and Lanuvio. Its motto is: . Velletri was an ancient city of the Volsci tribe. It came into conflict with the Romans during the reign of Ancus Marcius, the fourth king of Rome, and in the fifth and fourth centuries BCE, during the early Roman Republic. In the Middle Ages it was one of the few ""free cities"" in Lazio and"
"of the northernmost urban centres of the Roman Empire was probably founded in the late first century or early second century. The Roman civitas was the administrative centre of the Brigantes tribe, the largest and most northerly tribe in Roman Britain. Roman towns such as Exeter, Leicester, Chichester and Canterbury had the same status as ""Isurium"". Tacitus recorded that ""Isuer"" was the seat of Venutius, king of the Brigantes who was usurped from power by his wife, Cartismandua and her lover Volucatus at the beginning of the first century. Cartismandua welcomed the Romans who perceived little threat from the Brigantes"
"with Latin rights at Hipponium, to which the name of Vibo Valentia was now given. A fourth was at the same time settled at Thurii on their immediate frontier. From this time the Bruttians as a people disappear from history: but their country again became the theatre of war during the revolt of Spartacus, who after his first defeats by Crassus, took refuge in the southernmost portion of Bruttium (called by Plutarch the Rhegian peninsula), in which the Roman general sought to confine him by drawing lines of intrenchment across the isthmus from sea to sea. The insurgent leader however"
"seek an alternative to bronze. It has been suggested that a 1st century BCE reference to ""Ίκτιν"" (""Ictin"") by the Graeco-Sicilian Diodorus Siculus might refer to the Isle of Wight, although St. Michael's Mount in Cornwall is now considered more likely. A century later, Pliny the Elder uses its Latin name ""Vectis"" and in the mid 2nd century Ptolemy confirms the position of Vectis as """"...below Magnus Portus"""" (probably the port near Bosham). The Roman historian Suetonius calls the island ""insula Vecta"" in his account of its capture in year 43, referring to the future emperor Vespasian, who """"proceeded to"
"Concangis Concangis was an auxiliary castra in the Roman province of Lower Britain (""Britannia Inferior""). Its ruins are located in Chester-le-Street, Durham, in England, and are now known as Chester-le-Street Roman Fort. It is situated north of Durham and south of Newcastle upon Tyne. The name ""Concangis"" is Brittonic, but of uncertain meaning; it is possibly derived from a root ""*concos/*cancos"" meaning ""horse"". The Roman fort of ""Concangis"" is located east of the forts of Longovicium (Lanchester) and Vindomora (Ebchester) and south from Pons Aelius (Newcastle upon Tyne). It is east of the main Roman road of Dere Street that"
"Verica. An alternative explanation might be a sailing from the mouth of the Rhine to Richborough, which would be east to west. British resistance was led by Togodumnus and Caratacus, sons of the late king of the Catuvellauni, Cunobeline. A substantial British force met the Romans at a river crossing thought to be near Rochester on the River Medway. The battle raged for two days. Gnaeus Hosidius Geta was almost captured, but recovered and turned the battle so decisively that he was awarded the ""Roman triumph"". The British were pushed back to the Thames. They were pursued by the Romans"
"after his death. Its route ran north and west as follows: Via Devana The Via Devana was a Roman Road in England that ran from Colchester in the south-east, through Cambridge in the interior, and on to Chester in the north-west. These were important Roman military centres and it is conjectured that the main reason the road was constructed was military rather than civilian. The Latin name for Chester is ""Deva"" and it was thus 'The Chester Road'. Colchester was ""Colonia Victricensis"", 'the City of Victory', and lays claim to be the oldest Roman city in Britain. The Via Devana"
"explored, it is not possible to determine the exact position of vicus ""Gensis"". Gensis (vicus) Gensis was the Roman settlement vicus in Moesia Superior, now central Serbia, on Cer mountain near Lešnica. It is recorded in the Tabula Peutingeriana as situated XXX m.p. south of Sirmium, on via Argentaria, a road leading in the direction of Drina; on the mountain Cer area, and XV m.p. from Ad Drinum (allegedly today's Loznica). However, the position of ""Gensis"" is not established because on the same mountain Cer are located ruins of the three different settlements that can be vicus ""Gensis"", Vidin Grad,"
"Charterhouse Roman Town Charterhouse Roman Town was a town in the Roman province of Britannia. Its site is located just to the west of the village of Charterhouse-on-Mendip in the English county of Somerset. Its Latin name may have been Iscalis, but this is far from certain. Based on inscriptions on a pig of Roman lead BRIT. EX. ARG. VEB, meaning ""British (lead) from the VEB... lead-silver works"", the Roman name has been reconstructed as Vebriacum (with Iscalis more plausibly placed at Cheddar). It is associated with the Iron Age hill fort, Charterhouse Camp. The Roman landscape has been designated"
"At Viroconium (now Wroxeter in Shropshire), the road branched with one route going to Deva Victrix (now Chester) and the other into Wales. Bannaventa was a small fortified town on this road and was 10.9 miles north west of the Roman town of Lactodorum (now Towcester).17.3 miles to the north west was the Roman settlement of Venonis (now Wigston Parva) where Watling street is intersected by the Fosse Way. Bannaventa is derived from Brittonic ""*bannā"" ""peak, horn, hill"" (cf. Modern Welsh ""ban"", ""top, tip, point, summit, crest, peak, beacon, height, pinnacle, turret, hill, mountain, bare hill"") and ""*wentā"", of obscure"
"way out again. After the disaster of Varus in AD 9, XX ""Valeria Victrix"" moved to Germania Inferior and was based at Oppidum Ubiorum, then moved to Novaesium at the site of modern Neuss during Tiberius' reign. The legion was one of the four with which Claudius invaded Britain in 43 AD. It was also one of the two legions that defeated Caratacus at the Battle of Caer Caradoc, after which, from the AD 50s, it was encamped at Camulodunum, with a few units at Kingsholm in Gloucester. Around AD 55 it moved to Usk, for the conquest of the"
"were being hidden at the location. Leptis Magna Leptis or Lepcis Magna, also known by other names in antiquity, was a prominent city of the Carthaginian Empire and Roman Libya located at the mouth of the Wadi Lebda on the Mediterranean. Originally a 7th centuryBC Phoenician foundation, it was greatly expanded under the Roman emperor Septimius Severus (r.193–211), who was a native of the city. The 3rd Augustan Legion was stationed here to defend the city against Berber incursions. After the legion's dissolution under in 238, the city was increasingly open to raids in the later part of the 3rd"
"Eboracum Eboracum (Latin /ebo'rakum/, English or ) was a fort and city in the Roman province of Britannia. In its prime it was the largest town in northern Britain and a provincial capital. The site remained occupied after the decline of the Roman Empire and ultimately evolved into the present-day city York, occupying the same site in North Yorkshire, England. Two Roman emperors died in Eboracum: Septimius Severus in 211 AD, and Constantius Chlorus in 306 AD. The first known recorded mention of Eboracum by name is dated and is an address containing the genitive form of the settlement's name,"
"and defeated them at a battle at The Wrekin. By 70 AD the Romans had founded the fortress and town of Deva Victrix, now Chester, according to ancient cartographer Ptolemy, The fortress was 20% larger than other fortresses in Britannia built around the same time at York (Eboracum) and Caerleon (Isca Augusta); this has led to the suggestion that the fortress, rather than London (Londinium), was intended to become the capital of the Roman province of Britannia Superior. The civilian amphitheatre, which was built in the 1st century, could seat between 8,000 and 10,000 people. It is the largest known"
"included in the province, since it comprised most of the territory of another province, the aforementioned Gallaecia, but like the Vettonian people in the South, the Galaic tribes living there were also related to them. Viriatus developed alliances with other Iberian groups, even far away from his usual theatres of war, inducing them to rebel against Rome. He led his army, supported by most of the Lusitanian and Vetton tribes as well as by other Celtiberian allies, to several victories over the Romans between 147 BC and 139 BC before being betrayed by them and murdered while sleeping. Of him,"
"while serving in this unit that Artorius achieved the rank of primus pilus. Artorius next acted as Provost (Praepositus) of the Misenum fleet in Italy. This title (generally given to ""Equites"") indicated a special command over a body of troops, but somewhat limited in action and subject to the Emperor's control. The Legio VI Victrix was based in Britain from c. 122 AD onward, though their history during the 3rd century AD is rather hazy. Throughout the 2nd century AD and into the 3rd, the headquarters of the VI Victrix was at ""Eboracum"" (modern York). The unit was removed briefly"
"impressive fountain, presumably fed by a still-functioning aqueduct. The place was under the control of a """". Luguvalium Luguvalium was a Roman town in northern Britain in antiquity. It was located within present-day Carlisle, Cumbria, and may have been the capital of the 4th-century province of Valentia. The Romans called the settlement at what is today Carlisle . This was originally thought to mean ""wall[ed town] of Lugus"" but has since been explained as a borrowed Brittonic placename reconstructed as *Luguwalion, meaning ""[city] of Luguwalos"", Luguwalos being a masculine Celtic given name meaning ""strength of Lugus"". The name apparently continued"
"Wroxeter Wroxeter is a village in Shropshire, England, which forms part of the civil parish of Wroxeter and Uppington, besides the River Severn south-east of Shrewsbury. ""Viroconium Cornoviorum"", the fourth largest city in Roman Britain, was sited here, and is gradually being excavated. Roman Wroxeter, near the end of the Watling Street Roman road that ran across England from ""Dubris"" (Dover), was a key frontier position lying on the bank of the Severn river whose valley penetrated deep into Wales, and also on a route to the south leading to the Wye valley. Archaeology has shown that the site of"
"Leptis Magna Leptis or Lepcis Magna, also known by other names in antiquity, was a prominent city of the Carthaginian Empire and Roman Libya located at the mouth of the Wadi Lebda on the Mediterranean. Originally a 7th centuryBC Phoenician foundation, it was greatly expanded under the Roman emperor Septimius Severus (r.193–211), who was a native of the city. The 3rd Augustan Legion was stationed here to defend the city against Berber incursions. After the legion's dissolution under in 238, the city was increasingly open to raids in the later part of the 3rd century. Diocletian re-instated the city as"
"Veneti (Gaul) The Veneti were a seafaring Celtic people who lived in the Brittany peninsula (France), which in Roman times formed part of an area called Armorica. They gave their name to the modern city of Vannes. Other ancient Celtic peoples historically attested in Armorica include the Redones, Curiosolitae, Osismii, Esubii and Namnetes. The Veneti inhabited southern Armorica, along the Morbihan bay. They built their strongholds on coastal eminences, which were islands when the tide was in, and peninsulas when the tide was out. Their most notable city, and probably their capital, was Darioritum (now known as Gwened in Breton"
"while also fighting off Danes, Irish, Picts, Jutes, Angles and Saxons. Cerdic (whose Roman name is Coroticus) is the youngest son of Eleutherus, King of the Regni, a territory in southern England roughly equivalent to modern East and West Sussex. Although raised as a Roman, his paternal grandfather was closely related to a Germanic ruler given land in Southern Britain around 370 CE in return for military service. This was common practice in the late Roman Empire and means he is at home in both cultures. The novel purports to be Cerdic's personal memoir and essentially fictional, although certain characters"
"was the capital of the Roman province of Britannia, and its temple (the largest classical-style temple in Britain) was the centre of the Imperial Cult. But tensions arose between the Roman colonists and the native British population in 60/61AD, when the Roman authorities used the death of Iceni king Prasutagus as a pretext for seizing the Iceni client state from his widow Boudica. The Iceni rebels were joined by the Trinovantes around Colonia Victricensis, who held several grudges against the Roman population of the town. These included the seizure of land for the colonia's veteran population, the use of labour"